So much sentencing news to report

It’s another morning with broad sentencing coverage in the newspapers, and Howard Bashman has the goods here.

There are lots of interesting federal and state Blakely stories in today’s collection of articles, including this account of the on-going sentencing hearing in the case of former Wisconsin state Senator Gary George. According to the article, US District Judge Rudolph T. Randa has said “he would conduct George’s sentencing under the law used before the guideline system was implemented, which allowed judges to sentence defendants within wide ranges established by Congress. He said he would use the guidelines as ‘a valid resource.'”

And this article discusses the remarkable decision of the US Attorney for Northern District of Indiana to seek a blanket stay of all sentencings in his district (discussed here). The article notes that his counterpart in the Southern District of Indiana “said Tuesday she did not plan to request a delay in sentencings. Susan Brooks said her prosecutors would keep in mind the high court’s involvement as they considered each criminal case.”